Ex-seminarian Owen Keane, pursuer of life's mysteries, returns to Boston College, his alma mater, and to the scene of an old crime...and a new one. His longtime friend, James Courtney Murray, has been murdered, and DNA evidence has linked Murray to a twenty-five-year-old unsolved rape. Driven by his own knowledge of what happened that night in 1969, Owen seeks to clear his friend's name, while forcing himself to revisit the past that haunts him still.